Improved clothes and hat rack



G. BRADFIELD. CLOTHES AND HAT RACK.

NQ.46,751. Patented Mar. 7, 1865.

aim/M Wm M UNITED STATES PATENT .OFFICE.

CHARLE$ BRADFIELD, OF NEWARK, NEW- JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND PAUL'SWENSON, OF SAME PLAOE.

IMPROVED CLOTHES AND HAT RACK.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 46.75 I, dated March 7,1865.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that 1, CHARLES BRADFIELD, of Newark, in the county of Essexand State .of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement inClothes and Hat Racks; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable thoseskilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which-Figure 1 represents myimprovedrack in transverse section. Fig. 2 is anelevation thereof, as seen in front view.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention consists of a clothes andhat rack, in which there are tworails inserted in a metal socket without fastenings, so as to beremovable, the hooks being so formed that their shanks tit between therails and can be made to slide along between them to any desiredposition.

D is the hook, made with two prongs attached to a shank, which iscomposed of a front escutcheon, b, a back escutcheon, d, and aconnecting-bar, c, which unites the said escut-cheons. The bar is unitedto the front eseutcheon, b, at such a point as to cause the greatestpart thereof to besbeneath the bar and to fall against the lowest rail,B, so as to have a firm bearingon the rack.

O G are sockets, whose backs an; extended,-

as at a a, above and below the main body to afford the means ofattaching them to a wall. The body thereof in each is four-sided, and isdivided into two separate divisions to receive the ends of the rails AB, the dividing-parti 1 drawn in section.

, which is to slide therein.

ends are inserted into the several divisions of the socket, as shown inthe drawings, their ends being inserted only part way when it is desiredto insert other rails from the opposite side of the socket, as shown inthe right-hand end of Fig. 2, where one 'of the sockets is The .space fbetween the rails is to be equal to the width of the bar 0, The hook Dis placed upon the rack by slipping the rails out of the divisions ofthe socket and inserting the bar 0 between 'the'rails and theescutcheons b and d; respectively, beforeand behind the rails, extendingalong their front and rear surfaces, as seen in Fig. 1. The ends of therails are next pushed into. .their divisions in the socket, when therack is ready to be put upon a wall for use.

I place as many hooks between the rails as are necessary, and they canbe shoved aside to one end of the rack until wanted for use, as shown inred outline in Fig. 2.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. Thecombination of the escutcheons b d and connecting-bar c, the wholeconstituting a shank forthe attachment of the hook D in the mannerexplained.

2. In combination with a hook constructed as above specified, the bars ABand divided sockets G G, constructed, arranged, and employed asdescribed.

CHAS. BRAD FIELD. Witnesses:

HENRY T. WOOD, J. JACOB HOOKENJOS.

